Hello Crew!
Glad to, finally, be able to return. I have not been able to log in to this forum for, I think, the past 4 or 5 months! Each attempt produced an “Error” or “Not Available” message on my screen. Well now a new forum format to get accustomed to, LOL!
I’m hoping that everyone is still here, including Doc Wayne and Paul3 as well as passenger rail modelers.
Looking forward to reading threads and posts.
First, I’d like to thank those folks who kept posting on the old site. I was locked out but could read and that kept my hopes up that the forums would return. Since I am definitely NOT a computer compatible person it is taking me awhile and it will be a lot longer before I am back to my previous understanding of how to navigate here.
Hope to see many of the old faces returning and new faces being added,
Have fun,
Richard
Welcome back, both cowman and Antonio.
Thanks York!
Once I learn how to navigate here I plan to post some photos and, hopefully, interesting topics.
I think that many of the members were in the same situation that I was in that they might not have been able to log in due to the software issues. All I could do was visit and read the topics/posts. Hopefully we’ll see the familiar members, as well as welcome new ones too!
I haven’t been able to log on to anything Klambach since January 2019.
Yesterday I Re-registered and after finally getting logged in I was surprised at the look and seem easier to navigate. Great Work to The Firecrown Techs That fixed this old mess 
Dan
Welcome back, Dan, after almost five years!
I think that many of the members were in the same situation that I was in that they might not have been able to log in due to the software issues. All I could do was visit and read the topics/posts.
The software issue that kept you from logging in was Kalmbach turning off the server that generated “login cookies” in August. I hadn’t logged off prior to that (i.e. not removing the magic cookie) and was thus considered to be logged in by the forum software.
Good to see you back.
Photos are A LOT easier! You don’t need a third party server anymore, just upload them directly. As for navigation, those three horizontal lines in the top right corner contain most of the answers.
The tech was old and clunky for sure, but our focus is migrating everything to a more modern tech platform, which should resolve a lot of the frustrations…
I remember when something had to 40 to 50 years old to be considered “old and clunky.” How times have changed!
Tech is out of date before anyone starts using it 
Pennytrains, reminds me of how highways are conceived here in Massachusetts. By the time they are finally completed they are obsolete the day they open.
Regards, Chris
Please fill me in on what I am not understanding in this topic.
Where did everyone go that they are being “welcome backed” from?
This forum used to have a huge number of posters. Through the last few years, the Kalmbach Company didn’t keep up the software, and the forum lost many members. The final straw came when people could not log back in, with the result that only a few people were on the forum for months.
The new owners have revitalized the forum, and many posters are returning.
THANK YOU new owners! We appreciate your work.
Well, today marks the first time I’ve been able to get on in months. My posts fell off a lot in recent years, as the forum seemed to deteriorate a lot the last few years (that’s a reflection on the software, not the members), and I figured it was dying when I couldn’t access it during the transition period. But now that I’m back, it seems like it’s better than I can remember it being, technically speaking.
Agreeing with York1 , since the new owners took over things are improving rapidly
David
@pennytrains I had a computer guy (late 90s) tell me that “Technology is only obsolete when it no longer does what you need it to do.” I still use that quote to this day when I talk to people about technology.
By that logic the Kalmbach tech was obsolete. But the new tech seems to be perfect.
Ah technology. One of my friends worked at Rockwell Systems Automation and one Sunday afternoon we took the ProtoSounds 2 boards out of my malfunctioning MTH locomotives to the lab and hooked them up to some diagnostic equipment. Even those high power mainframes couldn’t make heads or tails of the programming.
I stripped the boards out of the locomotives and hot wired the can motors. Now they run silently on DC but at least they run.